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Opening Note: This essay will serve not just as a reply to Torres, but to the many other thinkers, current and future, who will decide (either through their own readings,…
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The guiding ideals of most humans are naturally oriented towards the benefits of, well, human beings. “We should create technologies that improve the lives of current and future human beings.”–“We…
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Over the course of writing my Cosmic Moral Aspirations (CMA) essay, I came across a number of moral and psychological development models that exhibited the kind of “trend towards the…
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Enough “What’s your p(Doom)?” How about asking: “What’s your p(Bloom)?” Asking someone for their “p(bloom)” means asking them: “What is the likelihood that AGI will cause all sentient and autopoietic…
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In our first-ever episode of The Trajectory podcast, Yoshua Bengio shared his ideas in our “AGI Destinations” series (playlist here). At the very end of that interview, I asked him…
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle Many who would read those words and smile confidently, knowing…
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The attenuation of humans-as-they-are, and the necessity of discussing what we should turn into (and creating or turning into that new thing) is an uncomfortable and sacrilegious idea in 2025,…
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This is an interview with Emmett Shear, CEO of SoftMax, co-founder of Twitch, former interim CEO of OpenAI, and one of the few public-facing tech leaders who seems to take…
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Identity is an incredibly strong force in the human psyche, and it manifests itself in all kinds of social sciences contexts: Determining what actions are “best” for us (or our…
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People often read about the worthy successor, or generally axiologically cosmic ideas, and ask: “Okay, Dan, but how do I actually DO something about this?” As it turns out, there…
